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| Gibraltar Acknowledges OECD's Benevolent Grey List |
by Phillip Morton, Investors Offshore.com
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Gibraltar Chief Minister’s office has underlined within a statement that
its government is very comfortable with the outcome of G20, as it
affects Gibraltar. The government states that although Gibraltar features in the OECD's 'grey list' it serves more as a progress report in ensuring tax information exchange compliance. Gibraltar expects to be 'fully compliant' by November 2009.
“It will be recalled that the Gibraltar Government had already foreseen
that a new financial order would inevitably emerge in the aftermath of the world
financial and economic crisis, and that finance centres would be impacted by
and have to participate in that change,” noted its statement. Adding:
“The Gibraltar government welcomes the global raising of standards of
financial services regulation, transparency and exchange of information, in
respect of which Gibraltar is already very well positioned and well placed to
prosper from.”
“In the aftermath of G20, the OECD appears to have adopted, as a test
of ‘substantial implementation’ of agreed tax information exchange
standards, the entry into of around 12 Tax Information Exchange Agreements.
The OECD has published a progress report as at April 2, 2009 in this respect.”
Since Gibraltar has not yet signed 12 agreements and therefore categorized
among ‘jurisdictions that have committed to the internationally agreed
tax standard, but have not yet substantially implemented’, this categorisation is accurate and fair. The countries listed as committed
but not yet substantially implemented (like Gibraltar) include reputable EU
member states like Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, and others such as Switzerland,
Singapore and Bermuda.”
”Gibraltar is well advanced in the process of signing up tax information
exchange agreements, and fully expects to be in the category of countries that
have fully implemented the internationally agreed standard, by the time that
the OECD issues its next progress report in November 2009.”
“The Gibraltar government considers that it is right and fair that no
‘black list’ emerged at G20, especially not one based on a new,
sudden criterion of which committed, active countries had had no prior notice.”
“The Gibraltar government publicly repeats its offer to all OECD countries
made through the OECD in November 2008, and subsequently directly to them, to
enter into exchange of information agreements at their request.”
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